Ella
Tichenor's Memorial Service
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Introducing
Mark's first piece of PUN ART
"Corporate Globalism"
the designer of the Ultimate
Egg Poacher.
Artist's Statement:
For me, art involves opening
the heart and trusting its feeling, even when it hurts. Then joy and sorrow are
not so far apart. There is a river that flows through each of us that
can carry us back to the sea.
Less is more, more
or less.
After a 25+ year career in software design, and two bouts
of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in 5 years, he's changed his path!
Brief BIO: (some of this may
be of interest only to ACS'ers)
Born: June 4, 1945 in
Philadelphia PA, USA.
Raised & Travelled: Mostly
in the Middle East. Manama, Bahrain (1952-1954), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
(1954-1957).
[1952-1957] Father was interdenominational
minister for the Protestant Fellowship in the three ARAMCO towns.
Education, etc.:
| [1957-1960] Davenport, Iowa. @Sudlow Jr.
High grades 7-9 , paper route, amateur radio, trombone |
| [1960-1961] American Community School in
Beirut, Lebanon - 10th grade (ACS
class of '63). Spent a lot of time with Tal Brooke (fellow UFO
fan) and Miles Copeland (grade 11). Miles' ambition was to conquer the world or
at least be filthy rich and buy an Island, hire a military and declare himself a
sovereign country. Does anyone know if he's done it yet? Where are you, Miles?
Last I heard, you were managing the POLICE. |
| [1961-1962] Central High, Davenport, Iowa,
11th grade, marching band, slinging burgers, questioning materialism and trying
to invent anti-gravity. |
| [1962-1963] Back to Beirut. Father was now
on faculty of ACS. Felt I missed out on the Middle East entirely in the 10th
grade. Started grade 12, petitioned Dr. Knox, then headmaster, to let me attend
part time to give me time to explore the Middle East. He turned me down and I
quit ACS, finishing the 2 credits I needed to graduate by correspondence.
Explored the Lebanon, went "smelling the breezes", hiking and camping
in the mountains, hitch-hiking to Damascus, studied yoga, zen buddhism,
theosophy, took the tram to the end of the line, frequented coffee houses and
wrote poetry. |
| [1964-1967] American University of
Beirut, studying mathematics (and taking my first pottery lessons). |
| [1967-1969] Immigrated to Canada. Lived
in Montreal, first computer job as research programmer, Department
Informatique, University of Montreal. |
| [1969-1971] Moved to Vancouver, working
at Computime under John Warnock (he later founded Adobe Systems) doing
geophysical mapping and graphics programming. Also worked at Simon Fraser
University as research programmer in cartographic databases and surface
rendering. |
| [1971-1972] Worked in Ottawa for the
federal Department of the Environment on geographic information systems. |
| [1972-1978] Self-employed studio potter
in the Quebec countryside. |
| [1978-1983] Worked in the Boston and
New Hampshire area: Liberty Mutual Insurance Company - systems specification
and DP research; also freelance software development - mostly for U.S.
Navy's ship maintenance information systems (Philadelphia and Long Beach
shipyards). |
| [1983-1988] Instructor in the Business
Information Program at Holland College, Charlottetown, PEI. |
| [1988] Technical college instructor
certification. |
| [1988-1995] Toronto, Ontario: variety
of freelance and fulltime software development. Burned out! |
| [1995-1999] Toronto - founded Little
Red Hen's Kitchen Garden with Mary and developed the Ultimate Egg Poacher. |
| [1999-present] Relocated selves and
pottery studio to Violet Hill, Ontario. |
MORE COMING...
Now making ceramic egg poachers and
original works in stoneware and porcelain, including vases, bowls, fountains and
birdbaths.
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